It was a real treat for the new label administration when composer and fellow musicology graduate Slow Wave Sleep appeared out of the blue and gifted 20kbps with this beautiful song of his, which he had chiptune producers Megus and Tiasu arrange into two masterfully crafted versions. Built around a clear‑cut vocal line, sung in Italian in one of the two versions, this release is a strong example of netaudio as a melting pot for traditionally oriented composition and digital genres, producing alloys that can have intriguing properties.

An essay titled Stultitiae Laus (In Praise of Folly; Elogio della follia) by Erasmus of Rotterdam was first printed in June 1511. More than 500 years later, composer Slow Wave Sleep writes his eponymous song, which we can now hear in two arrangements by chiptune producers Megus and Tiasu.

Not directly referring to Erasmus' essay, the lyrics give us an insight into the mind of a boy―driven, mad, and holding on to a feeling that is ‘beyond love’, because it is his only means of transforming an inhospitable reality.

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